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'''       In the book Dust to Dust by Tami Hoag, the main character Sam Kovac is a homicide investigator trying to solve mysteries. He works with very nice coworkers in his office and they all help him with the hard investigations. He sometimes gets stressed out because the people that he questions normally do not give truthful answers to his questions. After I get to know Sam, I see the main idea of the story. One of the police officers, Mike Fallon, tells Sam about the time when he went on an investigation by himself. He told Sam that he didn't call for backup when he went inside a drug dealer’s home. The man in the house became very scared and started open firing at Mike. Mike said that he started to shoot at him too. The drug dealer shot Mike in the back and Mike shot him in the chest. While Mike had killed the guy, he also noticed that he was injured. The man that shot at him paralyzed Mike's lower half of his body. Mike now has to wheel around in a wheelchair. Later in the book Mike begins to talk about his son. His son's name is Andy Fallon and Mike doesn't like to talk about him because he is gay. Andy had come out of the closet about a year after Mike got shot. One time when Mike was talking to Sam he began to tell him how he thinks that his son is dead to him. The next day, Sam goes to a house to investigate a suicide. When he goes into the room with the crime scene, he sees that the one that is dead is Andy Fallon. Sam thought it was weird that Andy would turn up dead after Mike had discussed that he didn't like his son and didn't want anything to do with him. Andy was hanging from a noose tied to the top of his bed and the beam on the ceiling. It was a horrible scene. Andy was blue at the toes, fingers, face and his body was cold and disturbing. He was hanging naked in front of a mirror. When Sam looked closely at the mirror he noticed that the mirror said sorry on it. He couldn't figure out if the note was from Andy apologizing for his death or from the killer, if there was one, saying sorry for killing him. Sam tries to investigate this suicide and really gets nowhere. He asks Andy's past lovers, his roommates, and family members about Andy and see if that helps him to solve the crime. Unfortunately, neither Sam nor Liska, an investigator, believes that Fallon died by his own hand-accidentally or otherwise. As the case unfolds, it seems more and more likely that his death was somehow tied to his work. The question is whether he was killed for a case two months old-the murder of a gay patrol officer-or a case twenty years closed-the one that left his father a paraplegic and made Ace Wyatt a hero. With major problems involved in investigating the suicide, Sam finds Mike shot by a revolver and declares the death suicidal because Mike loved his son even though he was gay and they never talked. Sam found the revolver laying on the floor next to Mike. It was horrible for Sam to see that because Mike was one of his best friends when it came to murder investigations. These events have shaped my book because the suicide of Andy Fallon led to another case of a suicide with his dad, Mike Fallon. After the death of both Fallon's, the investigators begin to dig up more evidence about the homicide case. They begin to question if Andy's death was really suicide or murder and Sam Kovac risks his job in finding out the truth. The investigation becomes tense when uncovering the truth behind it all. All is revealed in the end and all Sam has to do is find bigger clues in the homicide investigation.